"I just write what I like."

"For art to be able to work, for art to be able to rise to its full potential, there needs to be an active collaboration between the artist and the person enjoying the art.  You need to allow your reader to have things happen as they're reading.  They need to do a little bit of the work.  If you're telling them how to feel, you're not collaborating with your reader, and it's not going to be an effective piece of writing because they're not in it.  They're being dictated to.  If you're able to give them a set of events and they do the alchemy inside themselves and experience the emotions for themselves, it becomes a more effective piece of art."

"I never read those reviews."